Enjoyed it Sapthajiva.
While i cant match his/her eloquence, here's my take, post budget, a kind of walk through of Pranab's speech.
Five minutes past eleven,
In the parliament, his haven
Pranabda rose from his chair
With budget contents, his ware
Two budgets, interim and final
Back to Back, event surely seminal
Acknowledging his rare honour
Pranabda flaunting UPA’s banner
“Deeply conscious of the faith”
He said, of a billion people – A nation
“Restless, engaged and ready to seize”
It’s a duty, to deliver as they please
Wanting to get back to high growth
A statement in all essence, the truth
Pulling people out of poverty line
Ensuring they had enough to dine
Agriculture, high next on his list
Important part of the policy gist
Crucial to support the India Inc
Lest more jobs go down the sink
Education , need of the hour
Meeting demands for power
Expand reach of social safety
Meeting aspirations of society
Increasing outlay for the Railway
And for the roads and Highway
Meetings needs of nation’s transport
The message he wanted to import
Mumbai would get a new drain
Commuters not be stranded in rain
Emerging energy source, natural gas
No money, only blueprint he has
Extends waiver period of farm debt
Off their feet, farmers are swept
Entire world, the farm hands feed
It’s a very small gratitude indeed
Additional allowance for farm irrigation
Hoping it will better farmer’s situation
Wanting to restore growth in export
Schemes abound, in this budget report
It is to Kautilya’s advice he’ll abide
Puts Adam Smith and Keynes aside
Message that is more than implicit
Get back to discipline on fiscal deficit
Direct transfer of fertilizer subsidy
Sending farmers into a rhapsody
Expert Group for petroleum price
Any increase, Left will cause an uprise
Easy tax filing, welcome by finance comity
No use of papers anyway with coffers empty
PSUs can now be owned, by you and me
Incompetency not left to go scot free
August house was further informed
That financial sector will be reformed
Expanding the reach of rural banking
To this, rural masses got be thanking
Next comes all important NREGA
Architect of UPA’s victory saga
A minimum of 100 rupees a day
Pranab says he w’d willingly pay
Food for poor, now secured by a decree
Rs 3 per kilo, just yet, cant give it for free
To weaker sections he turns his attention
More to be done, said without pretention
Female illiteracy, to cut by half
Arent they man’s better half
Increasing outlay for those in minority
Sounding the “right” noise is sonority
He turns next to issue of health
Doing so, builds national wealth
Need to move fast on climate change
We are all in it, none left in estrange
Every need to increase military spend
To homeland security we need to tend
One Rank will now have one pension
Ex-servicemen needn’t have any tension
India is the Commonwealth’s host
Show, about which we’ll hopefully boast
Allocation for the suffering in Lanka
Contented, will he be, dear Mu ka
Pranab is, dear Bengal’s own man
For Aila, he does all that he can
Proceeding to give budget numbers
Snoring their way are few members
Arming himself with a grinding axe
Subjecting peoples incomes to tax
Providing only a marginal relief
Dashing many a hope and belief
Small increase to exemption limit
To do any more, finances don’t permit
Tax free export profits will stay
He does extend the tax holiday
Fringe benefits will not be taxed
He has been, successfully coaxed
For greater equity increases the MAT
Like a conjurer pulls rabbit out of his hat
The Left, no doubt surely in thrill
To see more taxes in Finance bill
Commodity tax is but abolished
Indian Tax regime is well polished
Pranab does his bit for the charity
Doing his bit for increased clarity
Excise and customs, his next stop
Some taxed more, few given sop
Exporters needn’t pay service tax
GST from 2010, hopefully without lax
Direct tax proposals bring no revenue loss
Indirect yields more for economic cause
Concludes saying road wont be easy
This is no time to sit back and be lazy
Ends by quoting the father of nation,
We wonder whether Sonia is in station
Capital markets give a thumbs down
TV shows put up their anchor clown
Budget, the statement of Govt intent
Impossible for all to be ever content
